Not necessarily. Because how? And to your point, because on that I think we agree, what would a well intentioned individual do with no guardrails, let alone one with bad intent?

I am under no delusion that the solution would be to simply spread out power. For one, my simple mind can’t imagine how that would actually work, without getting corrupted, in current year.

No, I’m more concerned about how humanity can form any sort of societal structure, power structure, without having one of those two above people (meaning all of us, at times) royally fuck it up.

But that’s what thousands of years of human history seem to indicate. We are doing something wrong as a species, if not at least something horribly inefficient, vulnerable to abuse, and likely to cause harm.

I’m not looking for an answer, I certainly don’t have one. I still don’t fully understand the problem. But it seems lower level than the distribution of power. I’d almost say more primal, or animal, but that feels like it cheapens it.